Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.