Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

...choosing words is harder than I thought.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

A king should die standing.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'