Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)