I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don’t come from outside sources—they come from within.

Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.

I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.