Forgiveness is the path to healing.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.

The ESPN complex is a 255-acre playland, as beautiful and perfect as the Magic Kingdom itself down the road - except it's sports!

When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.