You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.