I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

What a difference having a friend makes.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.