You don't have to be better than everyone in order to grow and achieve success, but you must continuously strive to become better than the person you were yesterday.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

Making a wish is fun to do.Dreaming it out is much fun too.Work, and your wish just might come true.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

To me, there is no such thing as a trash duck. There are ducks that are a lot better to eat than other ducks. But a duck is just that.

Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.