The smallest drop of rain can project the most beautiful of visions, all we have to do is look a little deeper. -T.L. Manning

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Either you will be under the blood or you will place the blood under you.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

Death is just around the corner. If only it would stay there.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.