Once you choose to love yourself then everything else will be perfect.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Your rewards in life will be in proportion to the effort you apply.

There are degrees of freedom. Complete freedom isn't always good, nor is the lack of it always bad.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.