When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.

You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.

Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.

Pleasure can impact your happiness for better or worse, but it is not happiness.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.

There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Life is about enjoying the journey, not the end destination.

Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.

I'll stay in Memphis.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.