Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable ‘must’all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.

God's perspectives requires persistence. To have God's perspective in the world we live in requires persistence.

Just because you can't read doesn't make you dumb. It just means you haven't learned yet.

I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!