I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Nothing, is what it appears to be, when it's only with your eyes you see.

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Joy always came after pain.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.