Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.

You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God’s perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know.

Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win.

Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.

I can only change the world by changing myself.

It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. Trust your every step because none of us walk this journey alone.

Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.

Miracles happen when dreamers take action.

Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.

Success is the shyest creature, blushes when you court it, jilts you when you propose to it, reneges later and perhaps blushes again.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.