You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

When I hang upside down and write the wrong way up, will my letters be upside down or the right way up?

I want them to see the magic of how everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

The way you see yourself today will affect your performance today.