I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

I'm simpley one hell of a butler.

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.