When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.

You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.

I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.