We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?