“Never let them see you sweat. Never take a "no" from someone who isn't qualified to tell you "yes." Never let the nay-sayers get you down.”

“If you stay in someone else's environment, you are just apart of their dreams. The dreams of others almost never align with our own.”

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”

“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”

“But can you ever excise a bad parent? Though you might come to terms with all that they have psychologically bequeathed you, they can never really be expunged. They're the stubborn, permanent stain that will never entirely vanish in the wash.”

“The closet is a powerful thing. It makes you accept things you never thought you would in order to preserve the facade that you present to the outside world.”

“Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.”