But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

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.

Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"