Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Courage encourages courage.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

If I don't buy it, I can't sell it.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.