Live in moments that consume your heart and mind, but be distracted by the music from the leaves, birds, wind, rain, sun and people

Put in the time, learn something new, challenge your perception and know that a setback is an opportunity in hindsight

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

Success is the ability to turn a pickle, a bump or an epic failure into an opportunity for success

A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relationships with a closed heart. How can one give love when the heart is closed?

It takes just one idea or act to connect the dots between hard work and success... Don’t relent until you find it

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

Only the ones whose hearts have been conquered by LOVE know the secret language of the eyes. Leave trails of love today, perhaps others might be brave enough to follow

Love FREES both the giver and the receiver, love INCLUDES all, love GIVES without seeking or demanding anything in return

Nothing can resist a person who is nonresistant... When you overcome negative with positive...hate with love... Evil with good. You've turn a loss to a win... You have become profound.

Roses have thorns, ’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending beds of fragile roses-with heart full of scars

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.