My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.

At the end of every challenge comes success. No level of struggle can outlast a mind that vows to never quit when things get rough and tough.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.

I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.