With a little discipline and regular self-checks you can learn to do one thing at a time. And do it better. And be happier doing it.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.

I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.