I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.