You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

I don't need anyone, I said.Then you cameI need I need! I NEED YOU. I needed you.What did you teach me?Not to need you.NOT TO NEED.

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends.

Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.