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

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.