Happiness does not come from consumption of things.
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.
You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.
I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.