You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

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.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

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