Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent.

After you leap, before you land, is God.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.