The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.

The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.