The world around us   conforms to expectations      we place upon it.

We are successful   the moment we start toward     a laudable goal

Footsteps of success,    are trailed by fading footprints,      of failures past..

Life without challenge    is life denied any chance      for one to achieve.

We wear many things,    but that with greatest import     is our expression.

Stretched by an idea,    we can aspire to new heights,      new ways of thinking.

Absence of problems   does not lead to happiness.     Dealing with them does.

Some believe they can,    Some believe that they cannot.      Both are clearly right

Anyone can talk,    but to listen is a gift,      we should all exchange

Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don't really come true. I'm a fully grown woman now, Frances Catherine. I don't imagine impossible things.

Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Hillary Clinton should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails and so many other things.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.