Keeping it real" isn't just a matter of facing up to harsh facts. It also includes opening up to the plethora of possibilities that offer us ways of impacting the world in spite of adversity.

Being realistic encompasses the negative, but it by no means excludes the positive.

Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.

The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth — it’s the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real

[They] can’t….understand you: you’re such an exceptional person. That’s what I liked about you from the start

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's, " Will muttered.

Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

The service took place on one of those afternoons that occur only in the past.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.