Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.
One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.
I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.
I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.
Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.
The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn’t it fabulous?!
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.
Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.
Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.
A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.
The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.
The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.
One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.
Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.
Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!
Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath the floorboards.
A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.
