Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

Its a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because thats where your community is.

Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.

Every challenge is an opportunity for spiritual growth.

Money cannot buy life.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

The journey is essential to the dream.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.