Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Life during the wedding day can be so simple, but life after the wedding day can be THE HARDEST.

Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders.