The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone - that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.

Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

Through people that I did know or through things that I did touch, I am connected with everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. Everything hangs together with everything.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."