The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

The sweetest melody that playsOn starry nights and wintry days,Most soothing to my listening earsAnd calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air―The song of sweet, still silence rare.

Never believe you’re so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well...

It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.

It’s mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.

You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my...

I learn by doing….the same thing over and over and over again countless times.

The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations,...

Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.

They tell me you’re the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my death resulted from your presence, an everlasting...

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader’s great experience.

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.

A finger beckons.My choice is to turn away.It is a mistake.

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it...

Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.

Kindness is my weapon of choice. My second is a Semmian dagger.

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.

Haunt an old house.Ask for a treat.Laugh like a witch.Lick something sweet.Offer a trick.Wander a maze.Echo a boo.Exclaim the phrase—Normal’s unnatural on Halloween!

Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it’s where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.

Pray each morning and each night.Talk to God and be polite.Tell Him what you’re grateful for.Leave your troubles at His door.Share your wishes, needs, and hopes.Ask God what to do to cope.Tell Him all you...

Life requires more doing than dreaming of doing to make a dream reality.

You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.

Las palabras nunca desaparecen, sino que hacen eco para la eternidad. Deja que tu eco suene dulce.

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?

When I say I love the silence, I’m not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I’m silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy’s pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.

The search only ends when you finally find the one who truly gets you.

The things that inspire your life should consume your life.

Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn’t the tunnel we pass through that matters; it’s what emerges on...

It is a sweet thing to have a husband love you, but it is a far sweeter thing when his actions convince your heart, and his words persuade your soul.

In someone’s darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

The bulk of life is discovering who you are—and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.

We try so hard to teach our children the right things―good from bad, choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we’d be better off teaching our youth to...

Easter is…Joining in a birdsong,Eying an early sunrise,Smelling yellow daffodils,Unbolting windows and doors,Skipping through meadows,Cuddling newborns,Hoping, believing,Reviving spent life,Inhaling fresh air,Sprinkling seeds along furrows,Tracking in the mud.Easter is the soul’s first taste of spring.

It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.

Patience isn’t tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited...

It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.

Freedom is the atmosphere in which humanity thrives. Breathe it in.

I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it’s because I’m babysitting.

Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.

Temptations don’t appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.

Because,” said a boy.”Because why?” asked a young girl.”Because I love you.

While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can’t.