I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.