During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.

Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.

I have no stress, because I am the best.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.