Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Communication works for those who work at it.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.