"I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories. - Page 15, Paragraph 5, ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton. –Hard cover version-"

"In order to know who you are you need to know God is."

"Revenge is not sweet"

"The truth was this: Love is a decision."

"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

"Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them."

"A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do."

"I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived."

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."

"Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…"

"Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!"

"What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way."

"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."

"No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage."

"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"

"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning."

"You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"I am one. Death is my enemy."Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger."Yup."

"Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without."

"follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)"

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

"Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance."

"Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me."