Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

If you go to bed at night and think about your day and you haven't laughed very much, then you must jump out of bed and go do something fun.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.

If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.

Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.

All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from.

The only way to pass a test is to take the test

Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don't understand.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.