Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

We need to apply the rules of 10, 000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals.

Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

Part of the journey here on Earth is learning how to discipline ourselves to set aside all of the voices and get to that deep voice within.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.