Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

Capital T truth is dead.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

Spend all you have for loveliness.