Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

All you have to do is to open your mind, do not be too hopeless instead stand with your feets and have faith that all things will be alright.

An attitude of gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of life.

A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.

That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

Anything is possible

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.