Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

What we become is a grace of believe in God.

The mind's health depends on what it feeds on. Avoid thoughts and conversations that kill your soul.

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

Do something every single day that scares you...and then watch growth happen.

One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.