In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

You change the world by being yourself.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

This was a Darkness born of fire.

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.