Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

But I was learning forgiveness didn’t have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

Live fast, die young.

Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

Work without fun is like peanut butter without jelly.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

"Jerks," I muttered. Then I brightened. "Oh, hey. Doughnuts."

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.