“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”

“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”

“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”

“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”

“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.”

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”

“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.”