Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.

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.

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.