We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.