I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.

Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it.

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.