When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

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.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

I can't play a character that I am judging.

Everyone is mine - no matter what.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

I think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.