We have all grown wiser.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.