the biggest reward of a lifetime is finishing day after day with a smile in you face.

When you surround yourself with wonderful, productive people, you become enhanced. Your level of happiness increases, which is your success.

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.

I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To Pay

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.