There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

when you betray to someone, first you betray to yourself, who speak somewhere inside you that you are a good human

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.