Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time, but it's up to us to see and seize those opportunities that are all around us all the time.

When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down.

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

Experiences are the currency of a life well lived.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. But the right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

According to the law of requisite variety, the survival of any system depends on its capacity to cultivate variety in its internal structures. Disequilibrium is life ... When I'm in a spiritual slump, nine times out of ten, something sacred has become routine ... one of the ways I snap out of a spiritual slump is by disturbing by routine and experimenting with spiritual disciplines.

Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.