I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

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.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

He was wearing a little bag of “Mojo” around his neck.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said.

Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.