It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

Elusive success is not the same as failure.

But this payment goes well beyond my generosity, " the monk responded."Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

Don't listen to anyone but me

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

I used to do drugs, but that was way back there.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.