We... we are basically good.""Haven't you been paying attention, Littlepip? Deep inside, we're all raiders.""No! That's not true.""No? Even the best of us fall to evil at the drop of a hat.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

When you don't have the words to say He hears your heart. When you feel like no one understands He carries your pain. When hope seems lost God whispers "Joy is coming.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves