By not making your own choices, you give up power to change your life.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

You may wonder what you can do for humanity. Humanity desperately needs peace. Be an advocate of peace and teach others to think about peace.

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are. Will you forever remind yourself, too?

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Writing well means never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'

A novice always behaves with propriety.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.