Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

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.

fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Love your enemies and drive them nuts.

They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

India has always maintained that there will be no third party in Indo-Pak talks. Hurriyat cannot be a party.