"If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore."

“forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.”

“My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.”

“Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.”

“The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?”

“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.”

“Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat.”

“God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.55, Ignatius Press