“We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.”

“God wants to hear about our cares, not because he needs to hear but because we need to tell him.”

“One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference”

“I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God..I now realize that I shouldnt work harder at a persons recovery than she is willing to work.”

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”