Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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.

Nothing exists in isolation there is a purpose for everything

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.

The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling.

The love that moves the sun and all the other starsThe kind of love that can burn the world or raise it up in glory

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.