1. “The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.”
2. “A new year can begin only because the old year ends.”
3. “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.”
4. “Believing takes practice.”
5. “The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”
6. “We do not love each other without changing each other.”
7. “We are suspicious of the grace. we are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”
8. “Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.”
9. “Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
10. “We can’t take credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”
11. “The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”
12. “As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.”
13. “If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.”
14. “Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
15. “Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
16. “When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.”
17. “It is the ability to choose which makes us human.”
18. “Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.”
19. “Because we fail to listen each other’s stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.”
20. “Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
21. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been .”
22. “Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
23. “To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work and work requires discipline and order.”
24. “A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.”
25. “To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.”
26. “To be born is to start the journey towards death.”
27. “An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.”
28. “An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.”
29. “We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more that we are.”
30. “Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.”
