I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Be gentle, always delicatewith every soulyou meet, for every single morningyou wake up, there is someoneWishing, silentlyand secretly, that theyhad not.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time.

Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever.

Some won’t appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you’re appreciated and understood. –

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.

If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.