Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.

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.

A team succeeds where an individual fails.

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.

I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.