[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

Love is something worth suffering for...

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6, 000 others were present for the music.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.