Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?

Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.

...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.