Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

When we blindly focus on what is to come we fail to see the 'now' and it is the 'now' which is our life. Each moment of each day is what we are living. Don’t miss the moments of each day.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Vocabulary spills I'm ill.

Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.