The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.