You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.

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'm one day closer…!

Hunger is insolent and will be fed.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Hunting is doing business with animals.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.