Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

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.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

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

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

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

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

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