Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.