I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.

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.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

You must realize that men make war as much with the enthusiasm of those who want it as with the despair of those who reject it with all their soul.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

Few men are wantonly wicked.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify