We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Why bad things happen to good people

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

You might be a redneck if you've ever worn a dress that is strapless with a bra that isn't.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.