Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

The best proof of love is trust.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

What our consciousness is experiencing is just a sliver of the infinite, multiple realities where we exist simultaneously

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.