Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

God is waiting for you to bear fruits

The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.

Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.