This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

But the past is long, and the future is short.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

The only thing you have to do in this life is die, " said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

I go all the way back to the Founding Fathers. I see the miracle of the founding of this country. It is so special, it's so unique. What needs to be emulated around the world is the United States.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.