Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Hope is the light that flickers and burns eternally, when you remain steadfast with faith.

There's no place like home...

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

I was taught that pain is bad.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.

... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.