Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

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.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

A couple weeks ago I was on the street and I saw an ugly pregnant lady, and I just thought, 'Good for you.'

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.