It's not always about fixing what is broken. Sometimes it's about starting over and creating something new.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

It's not that life is good or bad. Life just is. It's how you handle the shitty situations that will determine whether it's good or bad.

I'm the most awesome person I know.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

Standing alone is better than standing with people who don't appreciate you.

People who want to sit around, star gaze and talk about their dreams are my favourite kind of people.

...but I am only one, and if I can make a difference, so can you...

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

Not all broken things need to be fixed.

If you want a new life you need to hurry up and close the door on your old life.

Read, re-read and un-read!

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.