If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.