The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

Love is the cloud that keeps raining down.

The day had begun like any other ordinary day for Barnabas Crackle. That is to say, as extra-ordinarily as his days typically began, which were the usual for our faithful protagonist.

A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.

The daughter prays

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

'True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.'

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.