“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”

“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”

“Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the str...”

“Uniqueness is like a signature, nobody can forge it's exact copy.”

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of ...”

“People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”

“Dream big and never give up on those dreams. Who knows where they'll take you?”

“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”

“At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.”

“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”

“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing in the world for me that compares to being lost in a really good novel. That said, reading...”

“I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as God-in-public, and that methods of criticism designed to keep this rumor quiet need to be challenge...”