The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hues, shapes and sizes.

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

The Eiani cleansed, refreshed, and rejuvenated me. In order to heal, it first had to burn away the dead, consume the decay, then force new life where death had once resided

Everything is About To Change.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.