We couldn't believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast.

You belong to the world. Don't be afraid to be a part of it.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

Explore the deep ocean.

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

There is a sacred potential in every soul.

Lost in time but now I am saved by grace.

Life is a one way journey. Don't forget to enjoy the amazing beauty.

It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

Be inspired by the goodness in people and not their flaws.

Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the...

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I...

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it.

Why don't you read the Good News of God.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Love doesn't make you a poet

We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'. Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.

... perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never sullied with a definite shape, which never needs to be exposed to a less...

POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.

Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that truly move the world are invisible.

It was a morning for Ella Fitzgerald. There are fine things in the world, after all. Dignity, refinement, warmth and humour, where you'd never expect to find them. Even as an old woman, an amputee in...

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.

Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is...