Words are precious vessels that carry within them meaning sufficiently stalwart to transform lives and alter the course of nations. And because of the commanding power that is housed within them, I prefer to say one word filled with its meaning than utter a thousand others that I have emptied of their meaning.

There is no doubt that you will touch a life today. It's just the manner in which you choose to do so, and how that will leave both yourself and everyone you touched once it's over.

For the thinking person it’s not how many words you use, but how few you use, up to and including using none.

Whatever is written is but a silent voice, unheard until it is given a voice in the reading.

It's not enough just to say something even if we use the most elegant prose to say it. Rather, if a life is not changed in the saying, it is all better left unsaid.

The art of working with people is found in meeting them where they’re at, which means I must be willing to go where I am not.

It’s not saying something that’s been said a million times before. It’s saying something that’s been said in a way that feels as if it was missed a million times before.

It’s not saying something that’s been said a million times before. It’s saying something that’s been said in a way that’s feels as if it was missed a million times before.

To take a thought, to gingerly package it in a handful of words, and then to deliver it to a person for whom both the thought and the words within which it came are life-saving is writing at its best. Anything else is scribbling at its worst.