Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

Your voice and music are the same to me.

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.

Shut your eyes and see.

By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.