The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
I consider the government of the U. S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.
When you're a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you're so pumped and then you go when you're grown up and it's not as much fun as you remember it.
The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.