Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Words are forces of life.

Do not get discouraged if you feel He is not answering your questions or speaking to your situation. He will. Trust Him in the wait. He is at work.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.

You can see now with all the assurance that people have about the overall general management of the economy, they then ask more specific questions that we are able to answer.