The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Everything can be improved.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

A beautiful world with ugly people

Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

I have three closets in my bedroom.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.