We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

The world is so different when viewed through the light of God’s Word.

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.

Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.