Our pets are our family.

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.

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck.

It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.