There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

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.

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.