If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.

Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch

What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.