“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.”

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

All great achievements require time.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.

If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That’s how this works. That’s how music is created.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”