the fact about marriage is that it's never perfect, there is always struggle but you have to pick who you willing to struggle with

the value of a man increases only when he has a consistent relationship with God

God don't call the qualified, He qualifies the called

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

sometimes we fall because we don't struggle to prevent ourselves from falling

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

Trudeau's not somebody's who's going to make strange faces if Trump says something rude. Trudeau's very aware of his personal image.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.