Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

God is not looking at your abilities, talents, self-worth to be qualified to be his disciple

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.