Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse to follow His ways.

Divine spirit dwells in the soul of every man.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.