Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way, Accept it.

Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

Let your sexuality move in whichever way it does. Do nothing to guide it or control it. What brings it into balance is you being in your heart in the midst of it.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.