Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

I think if God came down and gave us all His version of Empathy then all the world’s problems would surely become a thing of the past.

The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.

Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I tell Where storms and stars come from.

Sometimes the best solution is simplification.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.