The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Active listening is key to all healthy and effective communication, however, it doesn't necessarily come easily.

Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

You must walk alone to find your soul.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.