Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict.

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

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.

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.

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

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.