If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Don't hear without listening and see without a vision

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.