We have messed-up lives, but we’re good people and we have grace. And even though we don’t have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.

He has a plan for everybody here and it's all a matter of whether you answer it when He calls you.

You see what kills your body but you don't see what kills your soul.

If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as a valuable precious treasure.

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

If you don't know that God loves you, he does. He loves his creation. And you're his creation.

Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

I can’t talk about anything or write about anything if I don’t understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

You have to stay focused out there and you can't get caught up in your emotions.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.