If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.

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 stories are not made, they are discovered.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.

We have to have positive male role models.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.