The secret of poetry is cruelty.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

This state of independence shall be!

We all find means of anesthesia.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

Craziness is just a varying degree of sanity.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Protestants do not very often disagree with what Catholics believe, but they do very often disagree with what they think Catholics believe.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.