Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to Heaven You'll find no policemen there.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.