The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

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.

You can't know how much a mother loves.

It makes a big difference when men respect women. There are a lot of men who don't, so that's the main quality that would make a good man a great man.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their psychic abilities.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists