The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

Faith is obedience, nothing else.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's goal.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

Politicians who are willing to spend too much are the ones who get reelected.

I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.