No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.

For aspirants upon the spiritual path, each manifestation provides clues as to what needs to be released or cleared in order to continue to ascend.

My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.

Christmas is a holy time to rekindle our love for another.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

One of the great advantages of only publishing five books per year is that I get to be excited about every book.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.