...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late

I'd love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine

What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?

All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.

I don't know if anyone can ever really explain why they believe in someone. But I do. I believe in you. I hope that's worth something.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

A story is never complete.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.