Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

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.

Everyone should see at least one street race before they die.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

I just want to be remembered as a great actor.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.

Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.