You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

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

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

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

As you abide in Christ, you will have strength for today’s trials as well as for all tomorrow’s challenges.

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

Our Redeemer ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hands to everyone. He opens His heart and says, 'Come to Me, all of you.'

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.