The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Now she’s lit by the warm orange spreading from the horizon as not-quite-day, becomes not-quite-night

So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready to serve you.

Love is a sweet dream until the hand of reality wakes you up

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

I want to be crazy forever, even when I'm 80

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.