We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond.

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

They never understood what Harry Potter what about. Or maybe they didn't want to understand.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

I am for wine and the embrace of questionable women.

A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.

I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.