I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.