Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
When hope does awaken, an entire life awakens along with it. One comes fully to life. It begins to seem indeed that one has never lived before…Wherever hope rises, life rises.
The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light—grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.
Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.
But sometimes everything needs to change. And once it does, you realize God knew what He was doing all along. You realize that nothing is beyond Him.
Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.
Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.
He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.
There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.
Mind you, the effectiveness of one hunter’s gun does not determine the number of bush meats the other hunter will kill. You got to be yourself. Be you.
People are eager to walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a "tortoise" walk and that I guess is already uncomfortable!
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.
Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.
Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
