If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The scientific definition of intelligence is the capacity to overcome obstacles

If you put a money sign in front of your eyes, how will you see the world?

Bravery is all well and good, but sometimes it's much better to be cautious.

To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

And I, love, am a pathological liar.