Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together.

The divine inspiration comes from God.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

If you looked at Jeb Bush's campaign, it's more than just money. It's the nature of the candidate and the message and all that stuff.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.