I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Yes, at times in front of goal a fog descends. Perhaps the speed of my feet doesn't match up with that of my mind.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my...

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

I regret often that I have spoken never that I have been silent.

"If I could undo everything," Tony said, "I would never have gone to that party. I was an idiot, Kelly, and it cost me the love of my life."

You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.

Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.

Boredom is for the selfish.

A great photographer shows off his talent & awards on Facebook. An amateur photographer shows off his work and skill on Facebook. A foolgrapher shows off his camera and how he holds it, on Facebook.

You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.

The power of the delete key.

A man is known by the books he reads.

If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

It was as if my soul had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. {Dark City Lights}

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

A brother once told Al Habīb 'Alī al - Jifrī privately: I feel disconnected. Al Habīb: That is a sign of connection because a disconnected person never feels. Brother: What shall I do? Al Habīb:...