They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

Doubt is how you find God

What is false about hope?

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person

dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.