We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly…Eeyore becomes your best friend.

Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. Its been an interesting and happy ride since.

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it’s like, “Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let’s sit in the hair chair together!” We’re lonely, women.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.