The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

You can take the Muslim out of the Caliphate, but you can't take the Caliphate out of the Muslim.

Bad management on your behalf does not constitute a crises in my life

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

I went to art school when I was little.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.