I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

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 grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.