purification in fire. public cremation

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Mind you, I'm going into the bedroom now to talk things over with Heavenly Father

To be an ambassador for Christ means to invite everyone to a personal encounter with Jesus

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.