Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

Find your center and stay there.

Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

You shall become the person you are.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?

Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.