You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Life is a flow of love.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requirement.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.