Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

Yes is like credit, No is like cash.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

If the word of God cannot do it in your life then your Pastor must be wasting his time.

One of the most important thing is that you need to write down your goals and plans

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.

Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.