Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.

Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you...

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.