Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

We must turn from worthless things towards faith in God.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.