And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent really.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.