Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs, ' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.