The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder.

I'm just trying to matter.

When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

Boys turns girls into such idiots.