Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

The whole is the false.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God