The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.