It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.

Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

The kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted.

There’s a world of difference between insisting on someone’s doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.

It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met, all through the years, is their obvious delight in what they're doing, and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.