It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

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.

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

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

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.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

[Jason Hale] is an upstanding guy. Yeah, I like him. He's good.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.