Aligning yourself with spiritual ideals that are bigger than you brings true emotional stability.

Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead.

We must submit to God's righteous rule.

This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.