It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be.

This isn't your fight, Patch, " I said qu

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath: the outer and the inner.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.