Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.