Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

Make your dreams your goals, so that they are a part of you and not just a wish.

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.