Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.

The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.