Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.

What is their real problem? Is it the fear or is it what they do after feeling it?

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

Because letting someone in close meant they could hurt you. I knew all about that kind of fear. I lived with it.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.