The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.

When someone hurts you time and time again, accept the fact that they don't care about you. Its a tough pill to swallow, but its necessary medicine.

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.