What most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.