There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.

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.

When I look at your smile, I can see your heart. When I look at your heart, it makes me smile back.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.