Quotes about Inspiration

Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.

When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

The belief that every human soul was the child of God, and capable of direct inspiration from the Father of all, without mediator or priestly intervention, or sacramental instrumentality, was fatal to all privilege and rank.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.