Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

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.

A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

La di da di, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.