People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends.