You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It’s also the root of a lot of bad art.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.

Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.