Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.

Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.

Let our scars fall in love.

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

just when i thought i had everything, i lost it all

You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!

If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.