I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

A relationship is the union of two psychological systems.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

Depart, Satan, ' she said, with a complete lack of enthusiasm. — Bats 2015

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.