Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

I had to learn to see my shadow and hold my pain in its fullness with acceptance and forgiveness so that I could release the hate I felt for myself and quit hurling it blindly toward others.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future.

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.