“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you canno...”

“Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.”

“Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.”

“Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.”

“Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. ...”

“A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.”

“To be happy, make others happy.”

“Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.”

“Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.”

“Dont settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day.”

“If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.”

“Sometimes, we wait on God for special things to happen extraordinarily in our lives before we understand that "God is working". Meanwhile, there are "super-special" things that fill our life barrel...”

“We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego”

“You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy.”

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasnt love, but gratitude.”