Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

Sometimes we have to break down to break through.

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

New insights from being present are a gift.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...

Do not conceale thy heavenly voice, Which makes the hearts of Gods rejoyce, Least Musicke hearing no such thing, The Nightingale forget to sing.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.