The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.