Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!

I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

It is important to realize that needs and wants will be unique for every person

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth