If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.

I don't wanna be that kind of guy that just sits there and announces things.

If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.