Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

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.

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

People shave their heads all the time.

My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

One of my favorite things about my job is getting to hang around with people who really know what they're talking about.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.