One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.