I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

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.

When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.

I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

To know life, one must love many things.