When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.