There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

Each generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

The bigger the person, the more their actions affect the world. If they live, perhaps they will learn that""And if everyone dies, no one learns anything

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.