God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.Rose of Life

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Don't fall in love with someone you can live with, fall in love with someone you can't live without.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.