Absence of problems   does not lead to happiness.     Dealing with them does.

We are successful   the moment we start toward     a laudable goal

Footsteps of success,    are trailed by fading footprints,      of failures past..

The world around us   conforms to expectations      we place upon it.

Life without challenge    is life denied any chance      for one to achieve.

We wear many things,    but that with greatest import     is our expression.

Stretched by an idea,    we can aspire to new heights,      new ways of thinking.

Some believe they can,    Some believe that they cannot.      Both are clearly right

Anyone can talk,    but to listen is a gift,      we should all exchange

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Football these days isn't going forwards. It's going sidewards

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace