My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

I believe social media is a powerful tool to transform our planet.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.