“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

“I don't have time to ruins others lives. I'm too busy making my own better.”

“I had no business inviting other people’s emotions into my life when I had no idea what to do with my own.”

“Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business . . . even your own life is not your business. It also is God’s business. Leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought. It can become a life-transforming thought . . . unclench the fists of your spirit and take it easy . . . What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort . . . than being able from time to time to stop that chatter . . . ”

“I am done living my life in the confines of others' dreams, waiting to live my own.”

“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.”