Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.