I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.