Leave people better than you found them.

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.