The Only mattered to him.Iconoclasm.

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.

He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.

One needs longing to live and enemies make one long for them.

His failure became my destiny

History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.

The words explain us all, each having a meaning in a meantime: every time for a lifetime.

An orchestra of temple bells and chanting erupted suddenly like a pleasing drizzle.

Mr. Rip Wan winkle, be a star that twinkle.

Indeed you have what it takes to care like a mare, but can misters br one?

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

I like to do something I fear.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.

Whatever we make the most of is our God.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.