Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.