It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.

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.

Eye reads what is unwritten.

If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.

many people talk about love, to seek excuses, no one is forced to lie

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Change everything except your loves.