Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

I wanted to better inform the world.