First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

We are each other's harvest

Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.

If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places.

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.