In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

It's better to be kind than to be right.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.