When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.