Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

Nobody notices when things go right.

I deal with the hatred by loving my supporters more.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life.

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

God wants us to move persistently towards His goals

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.