Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

She wielded the ultimate weapon against him, his kryptonite - her touch.

He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.