It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.

The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead.

You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.

Adversity is a good opportunity for self-realisation.

Loss taught me. It taught me that I won’t have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.