What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You won't find real love because you're beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.

...what good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?

Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.

There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.

I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are not writing for me.

If you could ever do a project that really has magic in it, and justifiable magic, you should do it.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.