If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

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.

You are your own travel light.

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Plans are things that change.

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Laughter is the best creative medicine.

I think the first villain that I ever played was on Stargate. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.