The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.