“The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

Life is for service.

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love begins with listening.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

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

When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.

Successful people just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

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 older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

I don’t ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend.