You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet