Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.