Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

In every man there is something of all men.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.