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

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty..

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we ha….

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love..

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardi….

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent..

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others..

Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, parti….

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a b….

our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest goo….

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But t….

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love..

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, ….

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe..

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..

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it..

The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive c….

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 t….

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our fa….

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling..

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Crea….