It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them
I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.