Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness immobilized by the gravity of my loss or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

We need to give each other the space to grow to be ourselves to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas openness dignity joy healing and inclusion.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

Each day each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

I mean in some cases with libel laws you know they can write things about people who have no course of action because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody whether it was a journalist the legal system or in that case of the political system who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.