By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Nothing is stable in life including life itself.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared...can she?" Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as if she has.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.