Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation and turn to Him.

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Not everything in my life has been pretty.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

I came into an environment that was already grounded spiritually, so that helped me a lot.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen.

I can stand what I know. It's what I don't know that frightens me.

Dreams are memories we’ve lost to sleep.

How wrong and petty any life is.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Consciousness is a disease.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

I love stuff like Mozart.

President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.