Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

If you chose to be happy, You will be happy.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

Without a vision the people perish.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.