Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang, that was the most creative moment of all.

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

You're the twinkling light in my eye. You're my shadow always protecting me. You've always got my back, and I love you for that

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried.