The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.