I was still water, held by my surroundings.I am now a river, carving my own path.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust.

The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

Your decisions reveal your priorities

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.