On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.

A Simple act of Kindness can create endless Ripples

The planet is littered with irresponsible gods.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

Be reckless in your intensities.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate them.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.