Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.

Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.

Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

He know where He wants to take me, and He'll get me there, in spite of myself.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

For me, it's about being true to myself and being true to our goals and not being afraid to declare what you want.