The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.’‘Temper, you mean.’‘No, temperature. It’s getting chilly.

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Without adversity, we never find who we are.

The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

Wise man and river; they both create new paths!

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.