I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

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.