The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.

If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.

Sometimes the one person that's bad for you is the person that on a bad day can make you feel good.

Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.