I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

Do not fear adversity. Win it over. It will make you wiser and stronger.

When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction.

Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

the nights would be orphaned without the sound of crickets chirping.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.

Simple, consistent good habits lead to a life full of bountiful blessings.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.