Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Everything can be improved.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward.