The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

The more you notice the love, the miracles and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.