Just because those around you do not constantly tell you what they are going through in their personal life, it does not mean they are living in a fairytale.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

The author describes a previous Bible study with a lot of turnover as "not so much together as in each other's midst.

The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus’s dying for our sins, and believing.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

I've lost the one girl I found.

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization.