Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Although complex, life is simple. It is individual.Living is the challenge. It is interactive. It's collective.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.