My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.