I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

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.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

The kingdom of this world will come closer into becoming the kingdom of the world if we all take possession of our spheres

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.