We have to have positive male role models.

But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.