Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.