I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

For how long are you going to keep wasting your money, time, and energy trying to impress people who will never matter in your life?

Two days ago, I was trying to decide how to ask him to marry me, ” Zane whispered. “Tonight I’m trying to figure out if I can even love someone like him.

Strong could be dealt with—but crazy? Oh no. You never knew what the crazy were going to do.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.