Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

My conversations with Trump supporters have left me with more questions than answers.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - Toni

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing.

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one.

A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.

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