“I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.”

“...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem of the creative being... obsessed... with the idea of re-creating the world in order, as I see it, to re-establish man's innocence.”

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

“Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams!”

“We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.”

“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art”