I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today. That the moment is holy, sacred, and all there is - and that we are only as sick as our secrets. So TELL IT.

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.

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.