True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

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.

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.

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.

Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.