Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

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.

The love you share with yourself pays immediate and lifelong dividends of peace.

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.