The only excuse for not improving yourself is not taking the time and effort to.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.