We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

To the PROBLEMS of our life, we are the SOLUTIONS. To the QUESTIONS of our life we are the ANSWERS

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

Choose your thoughts carefully [...] you are the masterpiece of your own life.

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.