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.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

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