Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.