The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work

knowledge without creativity is useless creativity without knowledge is meaningless

Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.