people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.

You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.