When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Find a need and fill it.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

A true lover never fails, a failure never can love.

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money.