Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.