Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.

In the shade of words sits life itself.

The heart stays heavy if it remains in a state of unforgiveness.

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

In knowing you I, discovered my self.

Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave.

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones.

The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.