You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.

Great art changes you.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.

Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.