there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for the perfect face to make up that perfect smile.

Creativity follows uncertainty

I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.