We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.

It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her...

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.

When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes The Bores and the Bored.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.