I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

I was raised to face any challenge.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Many people want money but do not love to work.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

You are unique with special skills for a specific mission on earth.

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

I think the story is my form.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.