That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine.

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less... Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us.

It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time foreverything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waitingfor me.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.