I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and talk when there are no laughs left inside of you?

There is never enough time for fun.

There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.

...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

Think sideways!

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.