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

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

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