Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

Find a need and fill it.

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.

Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

We are born knowing death.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

Create your own constituency of the infuriated.