Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

No child should ever be too sad to play.

it's unexpected pain brings change in a person's life. this change brings slowly transformation in same person

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

If you are not fully, totally, and truly committed to creating wealth, chances are you won't.