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.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Write as if your parents are dead.

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.