When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

The more I learn, the less I know.

I just think about how many women in their workplaces have been working to get a promotion, and they look around, and then this guy comes.

Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."