Laughter is carbonated holiness.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

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

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.