While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Suffering has a noble purpose.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.

It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

So, 'reaper' is really just a nice word for 'covert pervert?' Is that what you're saying?

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.