It's not where you are from (basically it's not based upon tradition) that determines who you are. But, it's really based upon your personality on how people will view and treat you.

Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need

Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face' -Nick

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.

There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that maybe brought up a similar emotion in you.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.