If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
As a general guideline, never marry anyone that you can't picture helping you go to the bathroom.
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.
As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.
Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.
It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.
You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path.
How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.
