Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

Don't be too obvious about it.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.