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

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

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.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

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