When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you.

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

Sadness is so ungrateful.

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears its heart on its sleeve, but isn't saccharine. It's real. It's grounded.

My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior