the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking

Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!

Her cheek against the moss, the young princess she had been - Aelin Galathynius - reached a hand for her. 'Get up', she said softly.

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.

And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.