Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

I believe we were right for each other, but not in that moment, which perhaps hindered any possibility of a future.

I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

A need is life seeking expression within us.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

Guys think I'm staring them down, but they watch ME for signs. Why can't I do the same to them?