Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly...

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.