And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

In order to accomplish something, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it.

I've always been someone who's kept my private life a little private. When there's a ring on my finger, I'll talk about it.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.