It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

It is better to live life with great faith, hope and courage.

God doesn't demand from you what He hasn't committed to your hands...yes

It is like confessing to a murder.

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The morning was beautiful like your smile.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.