Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

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.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

Exchange ideas frequently.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.