Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Can a mere song change a people's minds? I doubt that it is so. But a song can infiltrate your heart and the heart may change your mind.

In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.