Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

Christ Jesus leads the way to holy heavens.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

I know that life, I’ve done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

If you've managed to remain a Luddite - one who resists technology - you're surrounded by people who don't, so you're affected more than you may realize.