The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.

Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.