“Intellectual empathy requires us to think within the viewpoints of others, especially those we think are wrong.”

“Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.”

“Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better.”

“Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”

“Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.”

“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”

“. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.”