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

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.