Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.

If you are number 2 or 3 and you are ok with that, then you are ready to be number one and everybody is ok with that.

funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.