If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself, “How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print.In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

You make me wish I had a soul so I could be worthy of you.

Never consider yourself smart when you don't know how to treat people correctly.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

I just see many, many untruthful things. I see tone, the word tone. The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way.The tone is such - I do get good ratings, you have to admit that.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.