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

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

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

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

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess.

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.