I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Your life is your canvas. You are responsible for the beauty of your art.

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

I've been fortunate enough to do pretty well in playoffs. I feel pretty comfortable in them.