Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.