Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.