All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.

Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.