the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

Life is more than we get and possess. It is a mystery!

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

I want to rebuild America.

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.