While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

If you have enough breath to complain about anything, you have more than enough reason to give thanks about something.

Remember to play after every storm.

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

We always have to choose to live our lives to the fullest. No one is better or worse than anyone else. We are different and beautiful.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

Do not breathe simply to exist.

So many books, so little time.

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

Know that I love you immensely, and you hurry home.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

There is always enough because I died for you.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.