Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.

Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review your day, consider these two questions of courage and love. Learn from each day, so that each day you can show a little more courage and a little more love. Then, as incidents occur, you may rise to the occasion and look back at the end of your life and feel good about the way you lived.

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance.

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.