“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.”

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”

“To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.”

“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”

“I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.”

“I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.”

“It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.”

“Share too much and someone can hurt you.”