Even painful memories are ties that bind.

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

For until ye become as a savior, as a help to some soul that has lost hope, lost its way, ye do not fully comprehend the god within, the god without.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.