Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

Amy King is a true bard.

Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.