A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.