Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

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 place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

Be like the sun

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Let us always pray for one another.

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

We need to start thinking collectively as a people about what we should be looking at.