You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

Did I hear God call me an idiot?

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

Do wrong to thyself, do wrong to thyself, my soul, but thou wilt no longer have the opportunity of honoring thyself.

To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

[Wilhelm] Bruckner was one of [Adolf] Hitler's adjutants, very close to him and he'd been in the party probably since day one. Personally neither of us could stand him.

I come from the school of being (stereotyped) since I was five years old. And I know that I should not be putting my personal issues on the table or letting them effect my work.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.