Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

No work you'll ever complete

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.