There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

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.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

...our minds are driven to answer questions that far transcend the bounds of our own lives.

There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.

In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.