Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.

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.

Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

If you want to know what a person is truly made of, don't rush to define them until you meet them and see the principles they live by.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

Highly fed and lowly taught.