Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.

Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.