Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

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 door to your heart opens inwardly. Only you can open it.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman

Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.

I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks.

I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

Keep your brow game on point and always pack a lip gloss.