You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.