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When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.