Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me–life, great values, a lot of tennis lessons, and the best she could do. Unfortunately, the best...

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have...

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely...

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to...

He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you’re never going to draw another complacent breath again… or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you’d learned...

I’d like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the...

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world,...

Why couldn’t Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us,...

God can’t clean the house of you when you’re still in it.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is...

The American way is to not need help, but to help.