My mind is tranquil. I allow peace into my life

I enjoy the friendship and companionship of others

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

Have high regard for yourself. Be your own best friend.

Be genuinely concerned for the welfare and growth of others. Feel their strengths.

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.

If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.