God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.