So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!

They can only kill us once.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.