Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

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.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.