...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude.

None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?

You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.

...putting your faith into action is not a passive exercise. You have to actively and willfully take the necessary steps to locate and move along the path God designed for you.

You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?

Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)

My job as a writer is simple.Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.