“I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.”

“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”

“I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.”

“Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.”

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this i...”

“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bar...”

“Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.”

“We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.”

“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

“You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.”

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Corrie ten Boom”

“Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.”

“Past tears are present strength.”