Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Facts can obscure the truth.

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.