The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.