I don’t want to be my limitations. I don’t want to be my pain. I don’t want to be my embarrassment.

Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort

And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.

The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.

Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of love, joy and hope.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed.

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.