You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

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.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Faith and optimism come from love.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

I think the opinion is worth less now than it ever has been.