there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Mighty waves of oceans live in my soul to encourage me to survive.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.