Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.