I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.