Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

People that complains all the time about problems are the one's that need to fix there problems.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

New York is tough on lonely people.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.