I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.