The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

What comes from the soul, you can’t fake or learn. You be it, by letting it.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!