Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

You beat Cancer by how you live.

Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.

And the Lord said you got to rise Up!

I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters.

It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

Diversity means understanding.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

Your ma's dating?" Tim looks shocked. "I thought she pretty much confined herself to a vibrator and the shower nozzle since your dad screwed her over.

The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.