We are getting older fatter and balder. Each day brings us one step closer to death. Other than that, life's a ding-a-derry.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Why bad things happen to good people

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.