There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

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.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

You cannot “disrupt” without incremental innovation being part of the process.

The taste of love is always amazing

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.

You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

It will be funny in about 10 years.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.