It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God’s grace gives us that freedom.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

The journey is essential to the dream.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.