It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.