Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.