To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

In a way, I was safe writing

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

We've switched to text messages, we do anything we can to avoid being on the phone.

Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.