Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

In every crisis there is a message.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.