A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

There's a profit attached to every problem. Find it, face it and fix it.

The sun will set and the sun will rise, and it will shine upon us tomorrow in our grief and our gratitude, and we will continue to live with purpose, memory, passion, and love.

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't like.