To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

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.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.