Life is a gift and it is what you make it. Yet, it does have many twist and turns, many lows as well as high moments. Keep the fire of hope alive, even in the darkest of time.

So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

Practice increasing your time spent counting your blessings versus complaining.

Character is a course, finish it.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way.

In Christ, who you are matters infinitely more than anything you do or cannot do.

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.