Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.

Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against?

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

To turn down knowledge is to resign to ignorance.

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I’m being instead.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Grace, then, is grace,--that is to say, it is sovereign, it is free, it is sure, it is unconditional, and it is everlasting.

Let your conscience be your guide.

You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.

People cannot be molded like clay.

I needed to create something I could take with me wherever I went.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.