Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!

You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. Period. Always believe what you KNOW about a person, not what you HEAR.

When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things, the world will finally know peace.

Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart.

AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!

You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car.

Hope for the best, brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you’re faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

If you change your way of thinking about failure, you can transform your weaknesses into strengths & realize opportunities for growth.

INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what’s right rather than what’s in it for you.

Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!

Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness—but also ignorance.

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.

And so there are so many good things going on all across Iraq and unfortunately that's not what the American people see on TV or they don't read a lot about it in the newspapers.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.