If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.

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 read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.