“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.”

“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”

“Do not view failure as the be all and end all. It does not define you. Instead, take what you have learned and apply it somewhere new.”

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”

“You and I, wonder at the sky, call God a different name. As we try, learn and long to fly — you and I are so differently the same.”

“Name calling and labeling does nothing but lower your own level of discourse, when you have no other facts to present, which is why alarmists often resort to name calling and labeling.”

“I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.”

“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”

“It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.”

“I guess it will always be that way until the Church learns how to take lessons from culture and from history, and stops… putting labels of "spiritual" and "unspiritual" on things which God never labeled. -Appalachian Melody.”