No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna

Leadership can mean defiance.

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.