The hands are churches that worship the world.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Love is like slamming into a wall of concrete and asking to do it all again once the rubble is cleared.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

Home is where i hang my toothbrush and where the cats have their commode

Be the best of whatever you are.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.