Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

The pain of one human being to another cannot be translated through words and for that I am certain, it will never be truly experienced again.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

We have to do it, so there's no point in bitching.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.