When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can.

... 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.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Life is magic.

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

It takes a big person to avoid small worries.