Real strength has to do with helping others.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

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 not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.