Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

What people don't understand is like when water gets polluted, it's an entire aquifer. There's a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don't see, therefore we don't relate.

You will definitely find moments where somebody else is going to try to suppress you or put you down, but you have a choice in how you see yourself.

Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win

For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.