Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

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

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just keep making choices and don’t second guess yourself.

Teamwork makes the dream work

I love it, " I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations.

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.