What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

The feelings resembled memories

I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.

Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. "I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's going to be done.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.