Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?