I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

Schumacher has made his final stop three times.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.