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

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

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.