We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.

The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.

...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.

...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

Ghosts have a way of misleading you

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.