“Pessimistic" is a word for "realistic" that optimists use to make themselves feel better (about their unrealisticness).”

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

“When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.”

“Reality is an easy commodity in the Front Range. There's weather, and there are animals that are thinking about eating you, and there's all that beauty. It sort of whomps you on the head. It's strange that we use the word "unreal" to describe beauty-it's my experience that beauty drags us by the hair into the real.”

“Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.”

“No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”

“if we resist God's right to rule our lives, if we doubt the goodness of his word, if we use one part of Scripture to silience another part that we find objectionable, then it is a salvation issue-because our attitude to God's word cannot be separated from our attitude towards God himsel. And so as God's children, may we not resist the Holy Spirit. Rather, may we prefer to differ from our fallen world than from his glorious word in the way we live and relate and minister as Christian women and men, and in all things.”