You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.