I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.