I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. To bad I drew my mistakes in ink.

I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. Too bad I drew my mistakes in ink.

I think it's the bravest thing in the world - to run straight at love, even knowing how badly you could get hurt.

Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Republicans are obsessed with abortion...if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?

Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.