God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Don’t make your job your assignment. Rather, make your life assignment your career and job

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.

He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.

I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?