Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.