Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.

The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.