You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

Mediocrity always attacks excellence.