When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

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

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

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.

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

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.