If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.

The road to success is always under construction.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

With conscious effort, you can be a reader.

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

I love having an open seat next to me on the train. What's even better is when my seat is open too because I just stayed home.

I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.