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

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?

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

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

If you go on touching me, I’ll catch fire before your eyes.

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.