We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.