“I’ve learned, That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.”

I’ve learned. That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you more.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

I’ve learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I’ve learned, That when you’re in love, it shows.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

I’ve learned… that just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

Small daily happenings make life spectacular. Start enjoying the small things in life!

It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.

You can’t be a good writer without being a good thinker.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don’t know what they are talking about.

Don’t keep saying, “I don’t know where the time goes.” It goes the same place it’s always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes – that’s what I’m here for.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.

T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Helpless does not equal worthless.

I’m not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.