I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out in your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what's there. It was always there, but you couldn't see it in the dark.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.

Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.