Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.
Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.
The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.
