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

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

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.

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

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

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

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.