Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

God chose to save you for a purpose

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid. That's the way I learn.

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.