Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Things change. People change. Everything changes. The universe is in a flux. Energy reinventing itself constantly.

Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for.

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.