Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.