Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Music is my life and my passion.

Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.