Beware the pull on your heartstrings — it^s often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles…respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law…or, in a word justice.

It^s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

It^s cabin fever season people, that time of year when four walls feel like they^re going to come in here and choke the spirit right out of you. Time to lock away those firearms and hang tough. No way through it except to do it.