Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

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.

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

America's best days are yet to come.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.