As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

When troubles come into my life which burden my heart and my mind, I know that God will guide me by making his presence shine.

In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.