Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other. — Bill Cosby

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. - Charles Spurgeon

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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

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You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. ― C. JoyBell C.

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ― Desmond Tutu

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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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