Looking for the good in everything is equally as misguided as looking for the bad in everything.

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automatically adapting himself to what he supposes to be my taste.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

I need you. I need you to hate, so I can use you for your energy

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.