My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

Make your mark in the world with divine ink: love.

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered everything I have, I forgot everything I lost.

Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution.