The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

He misses her. He wonders if she knows it, and can't decide which would be worse.

The first and most important step to being more creative is to believe you are a creative person!

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.