Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.

Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

. . .the particular way he had of structuring his paragraphs, beginning and ending each with a joke that wasn't really a joke, but an insult cloaked in a silken cape.

In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.

If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.