if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

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

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

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

God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.