This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.