I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

You can become what you want. You have an army of angels behind you.

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

A little party never killed nobody.

The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.