We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it's our job to overcome it. And if we can't overcome it, then all we can do is make the most of it.

Depression is state of deep anxiety.

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.

I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?