Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.