It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.