The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

It comes from within.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.