Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Why bad things happen to good people

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Can you imagine how many people got laid in here?" Abby said, walking to the other side of the Jacuzzi.

She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

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