Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts.

It's a bad bargain where nobody gains.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.

Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it