I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.