All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.

Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.

If anyone has made you feel invisible or less-than, write a new narrative on your heart.

It is not our responsibility to fix every mess. If someone steps onto the scary ledge of truth, it is enough to acknowledge her courage and make this promise: I am here with you as your friend...

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.