I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

I’m going to kill you, you know.

When I can’t fall sleep, I pray.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

I want to be able to fight for what I'm worth, not someone else's generosity.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

You want sweet dreams, lose the attitude and you might find I'll give you reason to have them.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.