Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.
When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.
Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?
If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.
You can never know what you are fully made of until you start to do the things that fear you the most.
You can not force somebody to love you. The heart should follow you by itself.
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
