A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the mind".

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.