Count your blessings as often as possible, and you would become very enthusiastic about transforming your struggles into blessings instead of crying or complaining about them.

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.