Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.