I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

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.

How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often!

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

Sometimes the guy you think is too nice, is just the guy trying his hardest to love you.

There's only so much evidence a small Jack Russell can dispose of.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.