So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Trees are where Nature has simply begun

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.