Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.

Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.

Utter frustration often precedes the breakthrough so stick with it and have faith in your journey.

We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.

Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

When you walk around feeling quietly upset, frustrated, angry or some other negative emotion, people around you will detect it to some degree or another, even if only subconsciously.

Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.

Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.

Jealousy is when their reflection in the mirror that is your progress, is attacked rather than appreciated, begrudged rather than understood.

Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

The discipline of focus that is necessary to think profoundly is certainly difficult for many people to achieve.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.