Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there on the edge of madness, where he dreams.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.