I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

Pray always for grace and strength.

Your salvation is a free gift, made possible only because God planned it . . .Christ paid for it . . . and the Holy Spirit assures you of it.

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.