We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Often losing is better than winning. So don't fear to lose.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

We can destroy only as creators

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.

Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

Los Angeles is just New York lying down.