One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

Suddenly I can’t think of anything except you!

Tyrants are obvious, and easy to identify. It is the well entrenched and corrupt establishment that is truly insidious.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Money can't buy me love.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

It's always better to be real.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'