Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

I had a dream about you last night... you were a giant slinky and I watched you fall down the stairs.

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

So, at the last, a story.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.