Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small.

Peace begins with a smile..

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

But I am weirdly healthy, so I don’t beat myself up about it—it wouldn’t help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls.

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.