It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

Senior year is supposed to be about being mentally done.

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.