We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly.

The innocent must not suffer.

My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.

[Donald] Trump is most comfortable when he is hammering something.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.