I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

On immigration, Trump needs an articulate policy that aims to secure the border and keep out illegals while letting in skilled legal workers.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

I don't like being negative to people who are so nice to me.

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it's difficult for anyone to make any headway, yet keep his hands clean.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know.

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.