If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.

I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.

Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.

When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

Poetry": What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.

I pray and wait for an answer in pictures, words or ideas.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

all my wealth is in my memories.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

Married to the game. If we're dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.