Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.