The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.

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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.

It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.

The days take forever, but they just fly by. It's so weird.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!