Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.