We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

The first step may be the hardest, but once you take action you create motion, which in turn builds momentum.

Do anything totally and it is finished

My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong.

It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.