One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Why bad things happen to good people

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

I never quit. I just got fired.

While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.