Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful