While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

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.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

You gotta trust someone sometime. They're either gonna f**k you over or they're not. Can't live in fear, and all that, or you'll miss out.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.