God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.

O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.

Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.

Remember the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.