Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

I don't like being alone.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.