Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

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.

Live in the seasons of life like you live in the seasons of the world.

She existed in her friends

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever may turn out to be true that day.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'