What you do now will be in the past right after you do it.

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.

Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.

In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again.

The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

There will be roadblocks but we will overcome them.

The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.