Look forward with confidence and backwards with attitude.

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.

Cry when you have to and laugh when you must.

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

The only failure is not to try.

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.