Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.