I love the life I am living, not because it's close to a perfect journey, but because loving my life unconditionally is the only way i can continuously enjoy it.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

The devil's favorite place to hide is on the other side of love!

...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

I was an illegal immigrant.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.