The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

What a difference having a friend makes.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we "know" that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.