Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.