The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

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

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.