Encouragement is a mark of true friendship.

Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

Receptive prayer is one of the most powerful weapons against spiritual u-turns.

The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

Catch your friends doing something good and tell them about it.

To the degree you experience a love deficit you will also manifest a leadership deficit.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

Love is where leadership begins.

Loving leaders allow for individuality in style and expression.

Values are the guiding principles that help you determine what is right or wrong.

Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.

Essence of any creature encompasses more than one realm.Here now this body, is a vehicle of my essence in this universe.

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

I'm tired of being considered property.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.