Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.

Sometimes love isn't fireworks. Sometimes, love just comes softly.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us when they do.

Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.

God will show you who to partner with when the time comes.

When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.

Little is much, If love abides

Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.

As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.