When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.