When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the standards of decency, to begin to use language I would never use in front of my mother, all of a sudden, there's nothing between me and you, but worse than that, there's nothing between me and my worst self.

Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.