Learn when's a good time to shut up

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

It doesn't matter what you did, all what matters is what you want to do, when, where and how you are going to do it.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Do all things with love.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

It's really important for our troops to understand our country supports them.