Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

The breadth and depth of what dogs do for our happiness and longevity is pretty remarkable.

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.