Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that." Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

For some moments in life there are no words.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously.