Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

I cannot accept any more from you without knowing the price

Lies can be formed from truths, but truths cannot be formed from lies.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

A little doubt is better than total credulity.

Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.