All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Nobody knows what is life and still alive

He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now, for the first time, could he truly appreciate it.

There is more to living than not dying.

Sometimes... Sometimes our hearts...crack a little.

Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man