I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

It's success, which makes you beautiful.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

I don't like rehearsal.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

A girl can dazzle - just naturally!

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.