It's a very old word, it means 'to breathe into.' That's how it works: An angel breathes into men and shows us what to play, what to draw. How to find the truth of who we are and why we are here.

It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, because anyone who knows you knows what a great guy you are on the inside. You're honest and true.

Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.

But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning.

I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs

Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.

She’d offered him her friendship. Her body. And he’d taken both. He wanted to keep them both. And he also wanted more, so much more. He wanted her heart, like she had his.

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.