For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.