I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

Every single person is sacred. Sacred means special, precious, a treasure of true beauty. That means you.

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I never sing under the shower, I keep it for the stage.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

A medium is a bridge between two minds.