Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy