When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

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.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

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.