Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain.

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.