Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

La libertad nos mantiene volando alto, pero la contienda destruye nuestra habilidad de volar.

She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor... dirty people leave pizza boxes.

Exercise freaks...are the ones putting stress on the health care system.