“Remember: The answers are in the questions.”

“Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.”

“It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.”

“There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.”

“Congenital disease can warp the heart with great variety. Valves can be sealed tight, missing parts—or absent altogether. Major vessels can be misplaced, narrowed, or blocked completely. A chamber can be too small or missing, a wall too thick or thin. The heart’s electrical system—its nerves—may go haywire. The muscle can be weak. Holes may occur almost anywhere, in almost any size. Studying heart pathology, one is reminded that the genetic symphony that produces a normal baby is indeed a wondrous and delicate one.”

“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and attitudes do color life...but you have been given the mind to choose what the colors will be.”