KATE: Everyone is effed up, Dalton. At some point, you just have to find someone to share the baggage with.---Dawson Fur Hire (Bears Fur Hire, Book 5)

The best proof of love is trust.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have expected that.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.