I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph

here it was the whole world wrapped inside my armsAnd I let it all slip away

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.