Take life a little more gladly, Every disappointment a little more lightly, Every heartache a little more positively, And you have a little more days to live.

I know the struggles. I know the pain. I know the life because I live it too.

And sometimes I do freak out. Sometimes I get offended. I feel anxious, but it’s okay, because it usually goes away.

Life is like a rugby ball. You never know where it bounces next.

Life is not so bad after all when you can breathe.

Something of greater import, I think, is to say I’m blessed in infinitely many ways. But sometimes I just don’t see it.

The failure of the church is a result of not equipping believers with mindset to extend God’s kingdom

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.