You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s your life, live it in whatever way is best for you.

Never worry what others say when you walk away from all the drama. Be grateful you had the strength and courage to stay out of the conflict and be at peace with your choices.

Worry is using the incredible gift of your imagination to infuse life into something you never want to see in your world.

Instead of measuring yourself by your weight, measure yourself by your acts of kindness.

Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.

The one person you'll be spending the rest of your life with is you. Treat yourself with love and respect.

Those who are truly beautiful go out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

Somewhere within you is a huge supply of happiness, always there, patiently waiting for you to reach out and grab it. It’s yours for the asking. And you ask by giving it your attention.

A big secret for happiness - stay away from people who steal your peace of mind.

Love Is Elusive When We Never Live The Word We Speak

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.