Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

Life like an empty dream flits by.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.