wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known..

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way..

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children..

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with ….

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk..

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing.".

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility..

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along..

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me..

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it..

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Gree….

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand..

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through..

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as thoug….

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody..

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests..

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock..

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem..

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions..

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there i….