Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven.

You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.