A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.

Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me.

Mothers tend toward right on most things.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

You must remember how to dream what you already know.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

I like to do Pilates.