The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

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.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

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

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.