We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

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

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.