Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write.Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway....

As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified.

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.