Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

People are afraid of what they do not understand.

The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

Listen to the time as it can heal everything.

One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.