“I think the trick is knowing where you're supposed to be, and lettig go of everything else long enough to be there.”

“I used to hope that if I went to church long enough, all my inside weight would go away. That ain't right. Jesus may have come to take away our sins, but he left our feelings right where they've always been. I still have inside me some of what I've always had, built up over a lifetime. I just keep adding to it, everyday, like everybody else, and hope the stew gets better the more ingredients I put in.”

“Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows.”

“There has not been a time where in that moment with you, on you, in you, I have not felt I was the luckiest man alive.”

“Why not? Why not anything? If God ain’t a God of why nots, than I say ‘Why bother,’ and I don’t think that’s takin his name in vain, I think it’s tellin the truth about what people need.”

“I learned that attention is a prize, in love. The first thing you give. And the first thing to go, when the ‘new’ wears off.”

“Risin up, when you’re weak, makes a person stronger. By standin, thery’re saying that [she] matters, and they matter too. I feel better when I think about how showin respect to one person makes every person makes every person worth more.”