You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.