I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.