We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

Focus on the solution, not the problem