Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

The worship of God shouldn’t be done in church alone, but in all our actions and our attitude towards His creation

Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.

Prayer is talking to God… but it’s so much more than that… it’s the beat of our heart, the attitude of our mind, the song on our tongue, the direction of our thoughts…

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.