The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.

You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.

You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough.

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

There's about to be a shift in your life. Get ready for your blessings. You've been through enough and a breakthrough is on the way. Don't doubt it, just claim it!

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.

Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself.

Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.

The true meaning of success is not in how many times you failed because of your hindrances, but how you became a success regardless of your hindrances and failures

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires