It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

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.

No good deed ever goes wasted.

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