You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

There is no perfect lover or perfect love, only longing for love and be beloved.

If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

So I saved your life, and you repaid me by raising Kronos. That's fair.

Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation