Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Life loves the person who dares to live it.