Children make your life important.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.