I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

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.

I always have a fear of loosing Love ones. Even if I don't want to see this happen, I will have to face the bitter truth sooner or later.

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

I don't trust most people. Except for you.""Why me?""Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

Encouragement and praISE SHOULD BE ENDLESS. fAUTH BRINGS THEM TOGETHER.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.

I can't see the country electing another Bush, i love Jeb Bush - I think he's a nice guy. I just can't see it.