Anything that is not growing is dead.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Great is a great one whose great ones are great

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

A god could hardly love and be wise.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.