'Help' is a prayer that is always answered..

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is..

If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then ….

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere..

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open..

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writ….

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there, not….

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.….

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work..

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and m….

If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience..

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy….

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 a….

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who ….

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, l….

Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pool….

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food..

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big jui….

Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out and say, We're at a wedding! Have so….

Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover..

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so….