The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.