Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.

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.

The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

I have a dream. With that one sentence, Martin Luther King touched and empowered an entire nation. You know what else he did? He made everybody else without dreams feel real bad.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.