Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

A strong soul recovers from any suffering.

She has given me a way out.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

Learn what you are and be such.

There is no justice among men.

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.