Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you.

He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.