Education is not life planning, it is life.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

Why do we walk when we can fly by spreading the wings of our love?

Be glad while you have breath.

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.Hit.Panic.Flail.Freeze.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Rest when you need to, but never quit.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?