To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

True friends define each other.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.