The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

We breathe in, we breathe out. We inhale and exhale the same molecules. We are natural recyclers of the same energy, whether or not we realize it.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.