My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

Agitation gives birth to creation.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Murder is murder, as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

Every country needs another country to make fun of.

I'm as awkward as it gets, dude, but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward

Genealogists live in the past lane.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.