He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.

All small children are weathermen.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.