Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!