Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Every day brings new choices.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.

...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.