I am more than my scars.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. “I don’t want to die, ” she whispered, “but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.

What is it like to wear another person’s skin?”“I don’t have a good answer for that, ” I said. “It hurts.”“Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

A relationship is what you can give, not what you can get.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.