The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.