No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.

I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.