A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

Negative things you tell yourself are inCANTations, turn them into inCANtations.