By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

How you eat is how you live.

There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !