I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

Remember to play after every storm.

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.

I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.