Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.

Our Father in Heaven needs you to be who you are. ... You are very important.

Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were.

I guess I should have known back then. All the guys after him only left flesh wounds. Benjamin managed to get into my bones on day one.

The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.

Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions, the rock of irreproachablee conduct.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?