There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Great art changes you.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too

My eyes fall on you like a singing veil from the days of rebirth.

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.