When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

Put in the time, learn something new, challenge your perception and know that a setback is an opportunity in hindsight

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

Success is the ability to turn a pickle, a bump or an epic failure into an opportunity for success

A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relationships with a closed heart. How can one give love when the heart is closed?

It takes just one idea or act to connect the dots between hard work and success... Don’t relent until you find it

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

Only the ones whose hearts have been conquered by LOVE know the secret language of the eyes. Leave trails of love today, perhaps others might be brave enough to follow

Love FREES both the giver and the receiver, love INCLUDES all, love GIVES without seeking or demanding anything in return

Nothing can resist a person who is nonresistant... When you overcome negative with positive...hate with love... Evil with good. You've turn a loss to a win... You have become profound.

Roses have thorns, ’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending beds of fragile roses-with heart full of scars

Health is the greatest strength.

We are not at war against Islam.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Time is of the essence and I don't have much essence left.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.