True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

It's all rather political, mourning is.

A life without a positive purpose is nothing but a destiny placed on hold.

Do not worry about your needs. God knows your every need.

My name is Catbug. What’s yours?

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?