I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.