I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.
If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (. . . ) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.