I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

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.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

You don't look well, " he pronounced."Indigestion, " I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest.

Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.