Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

How much of what you accomplish today will bring you, or anyone else, closer to Christ?

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

A tree is an incomprehensibl e mystery.

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.

Brave men are brave from the very first.