The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

You can recover from any injury.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

We are all sinners who have been saved by Grace. We have not been saved from sinning, but we have been redeemed despite it".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.