The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

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.

Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.

He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.