...putting your faith into action is not a passive exercise. You have to actively and willfully take the necessary steps to locate and move along the path God designed for you.

None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?

...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude.

You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.

You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?

Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.

When I think of the Crucifixion, I commit the sin of envy.

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

To err is human to forgive divine.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)