Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Glory be to God for dappled things.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

What I do is me, for that I came.

Miracle: to love more with an irreparable heartache

You only honor and worship God when you do things without expecting anything in return

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.