The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.