Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.

There are no coincidences, only synchronicities: mini miracles placed before us by the Angels with love to inspire the mind and expand the heart.

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.