She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

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.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.

Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.