If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

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.

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.