Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Why bad things happen to good people

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Not every human are created equally although everyone has own destiny and everyone has right to live in this universe.

Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

It's not the dreamers that are remembered, it's the doers.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.