We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

In any story where solutions to mysteries are found, there should always be at least one mystery which remains unsolved.

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.