Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

Each day we hold things in our heart, sometimes these things are heavy. Carrying God's grace with us each and every day lightens life's load.

Everything is energy.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

God will never help us be anyone other than ourselves.

Just try to keep your head above water until the boys get back. It's as simple as that.

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.