There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

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.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.