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

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.

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.

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.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.