No" is a complete sentence.

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.

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.

Kindness is the best nourishment for humanity.

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.