“Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that He was having a harder time with me than I was with them”

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”

“Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.”

“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”

“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”

“God never breaks a man down with problems except to build him up.”

“Charlie is already outdated, Zheraldin! Sooner or later, instead of white silk to the scene, you will have to wear black to go to my grave. Now I do not want to bother. Only from time to time look in the mirror, there will see me. My blood runs in your veins. I even when in my veins the blood dried up, not to forget his father – Charlie. I was not an angel, but as far as could be stremyah to be a man. Try it and you.”