“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”

“I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. ”

“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”

“Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.”

“My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.”

“It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.”