Man confesses God forgives

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

If you have life you have money but if you have money you don't have life, for life is like every precious thing you need

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Becoming like Christ means aiming to serve, not be served.

Revenge is a dish best served . . . At every meal.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.