We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

He who cannot obey cannot command.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.