Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

Dreams are reality waiting to happen

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Stop hoping, start believing.

I know that each and everyone of you have felt, at one point, like you couldn't go on. But then you found hope. There's always a way to find hope. Remember that.

Live like you're at the bottom, even if you're at the top

There's always some way to find hope. Remember that.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.