Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.

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.

When you learn not to want things so badly life comes to you.

Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

I wanted to be a rock star.

To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.