We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

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

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.