A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Live in order to be-not just for becoming.

You ought to give thanks to the Lord.

The only person that you should live your life competing against, is nobody else but your old self.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.

It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

The light needs only our trust And, of course, the darkness To work its eternal alchemy.

brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.