I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.