Only a fool is not afraid.

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.

Jenny, " he whispered. "My Jenny.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid