I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
'American Idol' has changed the face of television.
A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.