Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

True Christianity is love in action.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.