“You want to know the secret to raising good kids?Whats that? asked Thomas.High expectations.Thomas laughed. Alright, well whats the secret to a happy marriage?Clyde smiled back, but his face starte...”

“It takes a day to fall in love and a lifetime to forget.”

“Scars are something of a bodys memoir.”

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appr...”

“Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.”

“Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.”

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”

“Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision...”

“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate...”

“One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportio...”

“My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”