Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.

If you are seeking the right path, you are already on the right path.

The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good.

Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen

Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.

A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.