Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go t...

In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be...

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot...

Someone is closing deals today, regardless of the weather, economy, politics, or any other excuses. Get out there and add value to people's lives by helping them move forward toward their financial fr...

They lit her wings with the flames, but she raised to the sky soaring over the clouds until the whole sky caught fire. She flew staring at the destruction with her cold eyes, while the clouds came dow...

While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers has the responsibility to take the gospel a bit further. To conquer some more territories and to expan...

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...

I've never had a moment when I thought: "Tom, you've made it!", and I don't think I want to, because that feels like you've reached the end; that you've crossed the finish line. But to me there is no...

Liking colors doesn't make you shallow.It gives you depth!

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...