Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Maximizing time is making sure that every second is accounted for

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear sign of a racial infiltrator who has not done enough research.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.