A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

I don't know how to change and I'm not sure I want to.

In the stillness of headstones, Darkness is my blanket.And forever is my song.In the arms if stone angels, I'm not afraid.Because finally and completely, I belong.

There was cruelty in silence, and isolation made it worse.

The effectiveness of your life is determined by how much impact you make

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!