Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.

How can you love someone who doesn't think they deserve to be loved?

When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

Leadership is another word for preparation.