"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."  Richard Dumb

"The most important thing for anyone to know is that people can love us just the way we are." Fred Rogers

Watermelon Seeds

"Watermelons are amazing. Watermelon seeds are even more amazing. It takes 5-thousand watermelon seeds to weigh a pound and yet, just one of these seeds, warmed by the sun and fed by the rain is capable of making a watermelon weighing up to forty-pounds. It gathers 200,000 times it's own weight, adds several layers of different colors and comes out with a delicious watermelon. Who drew up this little seed plan? Where does it get it's tremendous strength? Until you can explain a watermelon do not set limits on the power of the Almighty.

If God can do all that with a tiny black seed, what can he do with you, his own child? Let him and help him make the best possible you! With his help, you can do anything. You can accomplish any task or reach any goal because of who you are...You are a Child of God!"

--Ideas taken from an essay on watermelons by William Jennings

 "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”  Reinhold Niebuhr

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."  Mark Cain

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."  John Dryden

"Learn to pray.  Pray often.  Pray in your mind, in your heart.  Pray on your knees.  Prayer is your personal key to heaven.  The lock is on your side of the veil.  And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done.'"  Boyd K. Packer

"Sometimes the power of choice is taken from us and we must simply figure out how to accept it and move on."

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."  Noam Chomsky