Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

Perhaps gratitude and love are one and the same.

Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

In fact, in Aberdeen, Washington, I am known as Mr. Small Package!

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.