The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.

One reads in order to ask questions

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.