I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me .

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

What you think of me is none of my business.

We are what we think.

I believe in miracles.

Love is stronger than hate.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

We are what we are.

God is the Creator of all things.

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace.

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

One mark of good verse is surprise

The only thing that I haven't done is perform brain surgery on myself. I've been very, very lucky. I've spared Shakespeare undue stress by not doing that.