The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

Trust your instincts above all else. They are byproducts of natural laws and do not sway to your whims, worries and wonders.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response