The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.

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.

Determined is a quiet inner resolve, focused on your purpose.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.