And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

The deeds of the light are love, faith and purity.

I knowThat I can't sit hereAnd expect my silenceTo evoke changeWithout reason.

There is so much love out there, and love brings hope.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.