If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

The prophet is the eye of the people.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!

With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

It is false to say that humanity is the most excellent being in the universe. The most excellent being in the universe is the universe itself.