I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Find a need and fill it.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

As much as theyll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

A mom has to be ready for anything.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.