Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

Be fresh like a flower, be loving like water.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

How a kidnapping ends depends to a large degree on who the kidnappers are.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don't need an appointment.

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.