Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

I've done sport for a long time.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

Entangled between a dream and a coma.