Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Time trouble is blunder time.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.