Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.

So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

I have seen their backs before.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.